11 - Senior Staff Engineer, Software

Job Description

General Overview

Functional Area: Engineering
Career Stream: Design - Software Engineering
Job Code: SSE-ENG-DSE
Job Level: Level 11
IC/MGR: Individual Contributor
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

Summary

The Senior Staff Engineer, Software develops, debugs, tests, deploys and supports code to be deployed in systems/products/equipment for various applications. They write, debug, maintain, and test software in various common languages and for software at various levels in the hierarchy (from Firmware to Application). Software creation follows an agreed to development process (such as Agile, Scrum, etc.) and complies with the product life cycle development (phase/gate deliverables).
The Senior Staff Engineer, Software works in cross functional teams with other designers, customers, manufacturing engineering and project leadership to ensure robust and high quality product development. Enhance designs with feedback from reviews in areas such as manufacturing, test, supply chain, reliability, industrial design and simulations.

Detailed Description

1. Provides technical leadership to the compute team team
2. Leads the technical discission with customers, vendors
3. Develops and reviews Linux device drivers (I2C, SPI, LPC, PCIE etc.) and diagnostic firmware for manufacturing tests and for extended testing at assembly and
deployment locations
4. Develops firmware update tools to all programmable components (BIOS, EEPROM, CPLD, FPGA etc.).
5. Releases the documents work according to procedures and the design specification to the team.
6. Manages the software change by using software revision control and issue tracker tools.
7. Participates in technical discussion, review of other team members artifacts, code etc

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

- Strong programming skills:Proficiency in C, C++, P4 and other low-level programming languages
- Hardware experience:Familiarity with main elements of CPU, DPU, memory, NICs, board monitoring elements is a must
- Experience with GPU programming:Prior experience with GPU libraries like CUDA and ROCm
- Networking knowledge:Deep understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP, Ethernet, etc.) and concepts
- Operating system knowledge:Experience with Linux driver kernel development is a plus
- Debugging and testing skills:Ability to identify and resolve software and hardware issues.
- Problem-solving skills:Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Experience with SmartNICs:Prior experience developing software for SmartNICs and understanding of cloud computing architectures and services is the plus
- Clear Communication: Proven ability to articulate requirements and vision to large and diverse audience through written documents like architecture specifications and verbal presentations in technical forums is required.

Physical Demands

- Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
- Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
- Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
- Occasional travel may be required.

Typical Experience

- 12 to 18 years

Typical Education

Bachelor degree or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Educational Requirements may vary by Geography

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

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